It probably won’t be that long before some organism evolves the ability to digest plastic.
The year is 50424
Submitted 4 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Icalasari@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
Already exists, actually. Just not widespread yet
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Cool, dient know that. Now just hope they don’t make us sick or we’re really screwed. With all the microplastics in our bodies they’re going to be everywhere.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
sasquash@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
maybe we will evolve crab-like anyways. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Y’all aren’t crabbing yet?
meleethecat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dum-a-chum? Ded-a-chek?
Railing5132@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Long days and pleasant nights
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s enough time for us to evolve into carbon dioxide plastic eating beings, isn’t it?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
For something completely new like that 50k years is not all that much.
Perhaps enough time for the existing plastic eating bacteria to spread across the world, tho a lot of plastics are buried deep in soil already, so artefacts might survive. Same as with wood, before the wood/cellulose eating bacteria got all over the place, dead trees just for buried. So at high pressure plastic might turn once again into oil.
JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Tf is that?
anosym@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Weebs are eternal
NoiseColor@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
It would probably just be microplastics by then?
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Those crabs will probably just be microplastic by then, at least if our trajectory as a species has anything to say about it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Always has been.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
I think 50k years is a bit too short for major evolution to happen. And 5 million years too long for plastic figures.
Mac@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
curious what reference they use for year 0.
any theories?JCreazy@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Such a stupid system. AD and BC are the same amount of letters. CE and BCE don’t line up when written. Drives me crazy!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Are pixels like super valuable that far into the future?
HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It takes a lot of energy to send them back in time
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Version charges an arm and a leg to time-bandwidth